This year’s Association for Industrial Archaeology conference seminar looked at the challenges facing the future of industrial heritage and archaeology, in this European year of Industrial Heritage. The first session of the day looked at valuing our industrial heritage (see my previous blog). Keith Falconer, chair of the AIA, introduced the afternoon session on Funding…
This year’s Association for Industrial Archaeology annual conference was held at Brighton, on the University of Sussex campus. The theme of our regular research seminar was the challenges facing the future of industrial heritage and archaeology, inspired by the 2015 European Year of Industrial Heritage. In the first of two blogs I look at the morning session…
It was with a large amount of irony that a week after I had helped organise a conference on the archaeology and history of Salford Quays I followed online the demolition of the last two cranes on the quayside at Salford. Despite a year-long campaign by local groups to save the electric cranes, first erected…
Mist clinging to the foot of an autumnal-wooded hill; a hidden sunrise bathing the early morning sky in pinks and reds and gold; a cup of tea, a light breakfast, and the backdrop of the beautiful city of Santiago de Compestela. There are times, sadly not taken as often as they should be, when it’s…
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